Opening pdf within Firefox

When I click on pdf file in a website (e.g. restaurant menu), I get a blank page. I have the latest version of Adobe Reader plugin and it is available for FF (checked about:plugins). Using FF 4 on a Win 7 computer. Have tried all the solutions provided in "troubleshooting" section of Help files. Have not had this problem in the past.

Thank you for your response. I uninstalled both Adobe Reader X and Adobe Flash Player and reinstalled, but pdf links still open only a blank page. What next?

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Apparently it's related to the Firefox plug in.
This isn't exactly a solution but more of a way to avoid opening PDFs with Firefox's plug in.
1. Highlight "Tools" from the Menu Bar in the top left of the screen (or click "Options" if using the Firefox Compact Menu)
2. Select to "Options
3. Select "Applications"
4. Look for "Adobe Acrobat Document" under Content Type and to the right under Action select "Use Adobe Reader (default)" instead of the using Adobe Acrobat in Firefox
5. Open a test PDF. It should open in it's own window now.
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More info here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2171033

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If you are clicking on links which point to PDFs on the web, then Reader will be used to render the PDF using your default browser.
If you do not wish to view the PDFs on the browser, and want to view them via the application please do the following:
1. Launch Adobe Reader and goto Edit > Preferences
2. Navigate to the Internet panel on the left, and uncheck the option to "Diaplay PDF in browser"
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This resolved my problem
I checked and my Firefox is doing (or not doing in this case) the same thing. There seems to be a problem with the Snow Leopard and the Adobe browser plugin. I was able to get Firefox working again by going to Firefox > Preferences > Applications and switching all to Adobe settings to "Use Adobe Reader (default)" instead of the plugin. Then I went to Tools > Add-ons... > Plugins and disabled the Acrobat plugin. Restarted Firefox and now pdf worked.

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Have you looked at the [[Opening PDF files within Firefox]] Knowledge Base article? There is some good troubleshooting information in there. They also list 2 different PDF plugins. I'd try both just to be safe.
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Hey,
Try the following:
* Go to setting (3 bars) > options > applications.
* Under applications panel.
* Find Portable Document Format (PDF) in the list and click on it to select it.
* Click on the drop-down arrow in the Action column for the above entry and select Use PDF reader name (in Firefox) or preview in firefox.
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Reset download actions
* Open your profile folder:
Click the menu button[[Image:New Fx Menu]], click help[[Image:Help-29]]and select Troubleshooting Information. The Troubleshooting Information tab will open.
Under the Application Basics section, click on Show Folder. A window with your profile files will open.
Click the menu button[[Image:New Fx Menu]]and then click Exit [[Image:Close 29]]
Delete the mimetypes.rdf file.
Then open firefox again and see.
I hope it helps.

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